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300770, ATHENIAN, New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum, 26.49

  • Vase Number: 300770
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: ARYBALLOS
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATTICA
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: CHAIREI
    Inscription: HAOI LEI BRE
    NEARCHOS
    Named: DOPHIOS, TERPEKELOS, PHSOLAS
    Signature: NEARCHOS EPOIESENME
  • Attributed To: NEARCHOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: Handle plaque: TRITONS
    On handle: SATYRS, ONE SQUATTING, ALL MASTURBATING (NAMED), PERSEUS (NAMED), TRITON, HERMES (NAMED)
    Rim: FIGHT, PYGMIES, ONE FALLEN, SOME WITH CLUBS, CRANES
  • Current Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 26.49
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 83.4, 682
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 30
    Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland: IV (2009) 129, FIG.8 (OH)
    Berthold, A., Entwurf und Ausführung in den artes minores, Münz- und Gemmenkünstler des 6.-4. Jhs. v.Chr. (Hamburg, 2013): 405, FIG.163 (OH)
    Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases: potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 55, FIG.66.1-2 (PARTS)
    Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 39, FIG.21 (OH)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 23
    Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 431, FIG.9
    Classical Antiquity: 25 (2006) FIG.2 AT 325 (OH)
    Cohen, B., The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 188, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Dasen, V., Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece (Oxford, 1993): PL.59.1A-C (R, OH)
    De la Geniere, J. (ed.), Cahiers Du Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, France No 1. Les clients de la céramique grecque, Actes du Colloque de l'Académie Des Inscriptions Et Belles-Lettres. Paris, 30-31 janvier 2004 (Paris, 2006): 252, PL.2.1 (OH)
    Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indegni, Volume Quarto, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi 14-19 maggio 2001 (Rome, 2007): 131, FIG.9 (HP, PART OF R)
    Hedreen, G., The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece: Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity (Cambridge, 2016): 205, FIG.34 (OH)
    Hedreen, G.M., Silens in Attic Black-figure Vase-painting (Michigan, 1992): PL.4 (OH)
    Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.17D-F (PARTS)
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PLS.5.22-24, 6.25
    Isler-Kerenyi, C., Civilizing Violence: Satyrs on 6th-century Greek Vases (Fribourg and Göttingen, 2004): 32, FIG.16 (DRAWING OF OH)
    Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIGS.122-123 (OH)
    Korshak, Y., Frontal Faces in Attic Vase Painting of the Archaic Period (Chicago, 1977): 131, FIG.74 (HANDLE)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 857, NOS.591-593 (OH)
    Lambert, S.D. (ed.), Sociable Man, Essays on ancient Greek social behaviour, in honour of Nick Fisher (Swansea, 2011): 344, FIG.1 (OH)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.435, PSOLEAS 2, PL.467, PYGMAIOI 2 (PARTS)
    Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 45, FIG.18 (COLOUR OF OH)
    Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: 47 (1991) 9, FIG.3 (PART)
    Mertens, J., How to read Greek vases (New York, 2010): 62-65 (COLOUR OF R, HA, HB, OH AND PARTS)
    Metis: 2 (1987) 1, 81, FIG.5 (OH)
    Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 53, FIGS.4-5 (PARTS)
    Metropolitan Museum Journal: 51 (2016) 17, FIG.9 (COLOUR OF OH)
    Neer, R.T., Art and Archaeology of the Greek World, a new history, c.2500-c.150 BC (London, 2012): 141, FIG.5.36 (COLOUR OF OH)
    Picon, C.A., Mertens, J.R., et al., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome (New York, 2007): 82, NO.81 (COLOUR OF HB AND PARTS)
    Platt, V. and Squire, M. (eds.), The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History (Cambridge, 2017): 174, FIG.3.10 (OH)
    Prost, F., and Wilgaux, J. (eds.), Penser et representer le corps dans l'Antiquite (Rennes, 2006): 111, FIG.6 (HB, HB, OH, PARTS OF R)
    Rutter, K.N. and Sparkes, B.A. (eds.), Word and Image in Ancient Greece (Edinburgh, 2000): 87, FIG.5.1 (PARTS)
    Sanchez-Fernandez, C. et al. (eds.), Dioses, heroes y atletas. La imagen del cuerpo en la Grecia antigua (Madrid, 2015): 81, FIG.8 (COLUR OF PART OF BD, OH AND RIM)
    Walsh, D., Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting, The World of Mythological Burlesque (Cambridge, 2009): 53, FIGS.5A-B (OH, PART)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=5865
  • AVI Record Number: 5642
  • LIMC ID: 5343
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73ef54718cbf2-9
  • CAVI Collection: New York 26.49.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF aryballos. From Attica. Nearchos. Second quarter sixth. 560-550.
  • CAVI Subject: Handle plate, front: three satyrs masturbating. Left side: Perseus. Right side: Hermes. Rim: battle of pygmies and cranes.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Handle plate, front: behind the upper body of the left satyr: χαιρει. In front: Δοφιος{1}. I. e., Δοφιος | χαιρει. Above the head of the middle satyr: Τερπεκηλος{2}. In front of the right satyr, not facing: Φσολας{3}. Behind his upper body: hαοι. To right of his legs: λει and (separated by the tail): βρε. Under the plate, Gr. in the black glaze: Nεαρχος | εποιεσεν με{4}. On the left side of the handle plate, to left of the body: Περσε|ευς, retr. At right: hευ|σετι{5}. On the right side of the handle plate: in the upper left: τει. Between Hermes' legs: hοδι. On his lower right, down: hερμες{6}. On the rim, scattered: ριο, retr. θ[--]. αυασ, retr. κρο. καλ, retr. χοσ. αρυσ. ρορυ. θεν. ακι. ϙε. θοι, retr. βαυσ, retr. πυ. οαι{7}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} cf. δεφομαι (Beazley (1931–2)). {2} cf. Il. 5.759-60: οι δε εκηλοι τερπονται (Richter as a second suggestion, accepted by Beazley in AJA). {3} from ψωλή. {4} Beazley originally doubted this signature [probably because the incision caused much flaking of the glaze], but later recanted; see JHS 52. Cohen points out that the BG segment under the handle was planned for an inscription (which was executed after firing); this BG segment imitates Corinthian practice. {5} hευς ετι, "noble Perseus furthermore" (Richter), but Beazley rightly considers the letters meaningless (BSA 32). {6} hερμες hοδιτες has occurred to me, but the letters are in the wrong sequence and the last letter seems to be an iota. τῃ Ερμης οδι (Richter) is hardly right. {7} Hampe's attempt to read these inscriptions as the cries of cranes (cf. Il. 3,1 ff.) is not convincing.
  • CAVI Comments: The readings are mine.
  • CAVI Number: 5642
  • AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1931–2), 21. — Beazley (1932), 201, n. 46 (cf. Beazley (1927–8), 200). — Richter (1932), 272 ff., figs. 1-2, pls. 10-11. — Beazley (1935), 485, under no. 16. — Hampe (1935–6), 295/23. — ABV (1956), 83/4, 682. — Para. (1971), 30. — Add.[2] (1989), 23. — AttScr (1990), no. 97, figs. 22-25. — Cohen (1991), 53-54, figs. 4-5. — Kossatz-Deissmann (1991), 151 (Dophios 1, bibl.).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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